At this point I'm mostly waiting to see if they put out some decent add-on PVE content... Not just raids, but like more map area and story missions. I really didn't care much for the OWPVP in this game even before it went completely to shit.

Interesting, I'd never even heard of this... Maybe they changed it by the time I bought mine in November '14 (ACX 2.0), but I've never had an issue with the cooling. Even at stock settings where it doesn't turn on the fan at all under most circumstances, it maxes out around 70C, but you can tweak the automatic curve to lower that to 50C if you don't mind a little extra noise. EVGA claims the design was intentional, and obviously they had to pass QA with NVIDIA so it was good enough regardless. People love to bitch, though.

Mastaba wrote on May 8, 2016, 14:37:I have a feeling the simultaneous multi-monitor setup shown will not really get used all that much because getting that to work exactly correctly requires knowing exactly the size, location and orientation of each monitor with respect to some reference point. That is a difficult thing to do manually, and expecting a consumer to have the skill and the tools necessary to determine that, and tell the game that is a bit much. This require knowledge and skill. At minimum they will need to have some fool-proof way of calibrating the setup, which they didn't even hint at.

To be fair, if you can't handle that you probably wouldn't or shouldn't have a multi-monitor setup anyway.

wtf_man wrote on May 7, 2016, 18:07:Well... I actually watched the whole reveal last night... and that simultaneous multi-projection tech is pretty neat... can drive 3 monitors with 2 angled in and no distortion / warping (perspective is corrected).

That was neat, yes, but don't forget that right after that they showed how that same technique is used to eliminate warping in VR, by compositing 4 angled views on each eye. All eight of those perspectives are supposedly done in a single pass, which is more efficient than the way it's done now, where the two different versions of the same frame are rendered completely separately.

His exact words were "for free," meaning there is no loss of performance in VR versus a single monitor, but I dunno about that... The demo they showed depicted a VR scene varying between 60-70 fps until they activated this new rendering mode and maxed it out for a solid 96.

Like others have said, it had better be a complete 180 from the direction they took DOW 2... Everything they've done since then has been pretty crappy, at least in comparison to the greatness that was DOW 1 + expansions and COH 1 + first expansion.

jdreyer wrote on May 1, 2016, 14:56:I heard Texas got 6.5 trillion gallons of rain during a 24 hour period a couple days ago. That's insane.

That's it, we need a giant canal flowing from Texas to California... Build it along the Mexican border and kill two birds with one stone!

So long as you don't mind taking some water moccasins and gators with it.

Haha, all of that will just get stuck in one of the jumbo Brita filters... The zoos will make weekly pickups from the treatment plants. Until that point, they'll serve nicely as added deterrents to border-hopping.

nin wrote on Apr 30, 2016, 18:52:Plz blizzcon, one more expansion! I've not given up hope, though logic says I certainly should have...

Yes, Diablo 3 is pretty much over. Blizzard's C team is running the game now, all their talent moved off to other games, after the legal issues with the AH and relatively meager sales of the expansion, Blizzard has effectively written the game off.

Highly unlikely to have an expansion or anything but more massively inflated numbers from this point forward.

The only way to 'save' the game would be to open it up to modding and offline play on PC(PS version already has offline of course).

Last summer, Diablo III officially broke into the Top 10 best-selling video games of all time with the announcement that 30+ million units had been sold across all platforms... It's the only Blizzard title to even come close and has beaten any individual Call of Duty. I don't pretend to know what they are or aren't doing with the game or the franchise, but to say the game has been anything but a HUGE success for them is patently untrue.

A lot of good changes in 2.4.1, lots of buffs across the board, but nothing too major. Long and short of the legendary gem changes is that build-specific ones like Enforcer and Simplicity's Strength should be competitive again and general builds that used Taeguk before will use BotP instead, or possibly Stricken. It's good to see the Barb whirlwind ring is not completely useless anymore! We need more alternatives to Convention of Elements...

Wallshadows wrote on Apr 26, 2016, 14:59:I don't know if Mark Kern really has enough pull to appease Mike Morhaime even with all those signatures. It has been a long time since he was a part of Blizzard and he hasn't been doing himself any favors lately either by bringing Red 5 and Firefall to the brink of destruction before being kicked out for sheer incompetence.

I wouldn't be surprised if he sees it as a potential job offer to lead a legacy project which is why he is pushing so hard for it but I'm not sure the gaming world wants anything to do with him now. He's 12 years too late to cash in on his work.

jdreyer wrote on Apr 22, 2016, 23:33:Overwatch Cups Now Available at Taco Bell - Collect All Four…

Real deal, or Onion article? Is that a thing now, fast food tie-ins with games?

Maybe it's been a thing for a while, I never got to fast food places.

I remember McDonald's had Mario toys when I was a kid, in between a lot of classic Disney stuff. I'm not sure they even have toys with Happy Meals anymore... If they do, they're probably not worth a damn, like CrackerJack prizes.

The first day of Postal 2, for sure. Other days of the week had similarly simplistic objectives, and if you really wanted to you could just beat the whole game in no time. So yeah, same concept, I dunno if they take it in those dark directions, though.

"Town of Things is a game that gives you the simple mundane task of getting milk. You can simply walk to the store, buy milk, and roll credits. However, if you explore the town, you will get tangled up in all sorts of wacky adventures."…

Coincidentally, I've been going through Joss Whedon's Dollhouse on Netflix lately and just saw a relevant episode. I wish I could find a video clip of it because Tudyk's portrayal of a neurotic environmentalist is really great, but:

Earth gets one day, alright, the other 364 we're-we're-we're cranking the AC in our Hummer and then one day a year, ooh, we separate the plastic! You know what I think? I think that once we die out - a couple hundred years - Earth is gonna have a People Day, you know, to remember us. One day a year she is gonna laugh and laugh and shake our bones.

sauron wrote on Apr 22, 2016, 10:19:That Amazon thing sounds a bit silly. I mean, it's not like there's any competition out there, right?

As much as I love amazon, that's a really shitty thing to do on their part...hopefully they get enough push back to reverse it.

Here in the US, I'm running into a similar issue where certain food items can only be purchased with Amazon Pantry, which includes a shipping charge even if you have prime. And if you don't want to do that, you seemingly can't buy the item (unless I missed something, but I've looked around).

Pantry items are items Amazon cannot sell profitably. Think a 12 pack of Coke, or a $2.99 bottle of shampoo. Those things cost less than the shipping. Amazon has sold them for a while, hoping people build a big enough basket to make shipping profitable, or having the vendor fund the cost if they're trying to use Amazon to build awareness.

It isn't great, and I won't use it because I live in an apartment that probably can't hold 40lbs of stuff, but I get why they're doing it. Selling someone a 12 pack of Coke for $4.99 that takes $8 to ship isn't good business.

You're right, any food items that aren't Pantry-exclusive are sold in enough bulk that it justifies shipping independently, but AFAIK Pantry goes by volume first. There's no way a bag of chips weighs 5-10% of a 40-pound limit. They don't have a very good selection of canned goods, yet, otherwise I might have tested this weight restriction by now...

I don't order from the Pantry very often, it's a neat concept but they need to offer more things I can't get at my local supermarket... I still have to go there regularly anyway for the perishable items. Also, you can offset some of the shipping cost with a voucher they give you for designating a normal Prime order as no-rush.